Exhibitions

Mattress Factory installation view: “This Is Just That” (1990)
Mattress Factory installation view: “This Is Just That” (1990)

Selected SOLO EXHIBITIONS/FILM SCREENINGS 1986 – present:
1986:         Donnell Library Center. New York Public Library; Recent Films and Film Studies, New York, New York.
1987:         Los Angeles Film Forum. Films and Drawings; Los Angeles, California.
1987:         California Institute of the Arts.  Films and Drawings; Valencia, California.
1987:         Osaka Designer’s College. Films and Drawings; Osaka, Japan.
1987:         Image Forum, Tokyo. Films and Drawings; Tokyo, Japan.
1987:         Edinboro University. Films and Drawings; Edinboro, Pennsylvania.
1988:         Currier Gallery of Art. Films, Drawings, Works-in-Progress; Manchester, New Hampshire.
1989:         Tokyo Designer’s College. Films and Drawings; Tokyo, Japan.
1989:         Image Forum, Tokyo. New Works in Film and Drawing; Tokyo, Japan.
1989:         Osaka Designer’s College. New Works in Film and Drawing; Osaka, Japan.
1989:         International House of Japan.  Films and Drawings; Tokyo, Japan.
1989:         Carnegie Museum of Art. Section of Film and Video; New Work in Film; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1990:         Carnegie Mellon Art Gallery. Films, Paintings, and Drawings; Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.
1990:         1414 Monterey Gallery/The Mattress Factory.  “This is Just That,” an Installation Piece; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1991:         Carnegie Museum of Art. Section of Film and Video; FilmFront Series: Film Retrospective; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1991:         Forum Gallery/Carnegie Museum of Art.  Work in Computer Animation, Drawing, and Installation; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1991:         Arizona Center for Media Arts.  The Screening Room; New Films; Tucson, Arizona.
1992:         Itoki Gallery. Visible Art Today series: Glabicki: Works in Video and Art; Hiroshima, Japan.
1993:         Cinematograph-Filmverleih. Films and Computer Animation; Innsbruck, Austria.
1993:         Moviemento.  Films and Computer Animation; Linz, Austria.
1993:         Kino im Augarten. Films and Computer Animation; Graz, Austria.
1993:         Academy of Applied Arts of Vienna.  Films and Computer Animation, Video Installation; Vienna , Austria.
1993:         Filmcasino Theater. Film  Retrospective; Vienna, Austria.
1993:         Rochester Institute of Technology.  Films, Drawings, Computer Animation; Rochester, New York.
1995:         Center For Contemporary Arts. Installation of Computer Animation,  3D Projection of Computer-Generated Memory Spaces; Cincinnati, Ohio.
1997:         Film Gallery: Carnegie Museum of Art.  “Artist’s Films from the 1960s and 1970s: Films of Paul Glabicki;” Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
2001:         Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.  “Artist of the Year – 2001,” installation and premiere of computer  animation video piece FULL MOON.
2002:        Hiroshima 2002.  The International Animation Festival of Japan; Aster Plaza Cultural Arts Center; installation of FULL MOON and RED FENCE; Hiroshima, Japan.
2009:         Kim Foster Gallery.  “Accounting for…” Drawing series; New York, New York.
2012:         Kim Foster Gallery.  “Order” Drawing series; New York, New York.
2014:         Kim Foster Gallery.  “Relativity” Drawing series; New York, New York
2016:         Kim Foster Gallery.  “The Light” Drawing series; New York, New York

2019:         Kim Foster Gallery.  “Land and Scene,” works from the “Topography” and “10 Scenes” drawing series; New York, New York.

Selected GROUP EXHIBITIONS/FILM SCREENINGS 1984 – present:
1984:         Image Forum. Tokyo, Japan.
1985:         Santa Fe Film Exposition Invitational.  Center for Contemporary Arts; Santa Fe, New  Mexico.
1985:         Neighborhood Film Project. International House; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1985:         Hirshorn Museum.  New American Independent Cinema; Washington D.C.
1985:         Masterpiece Film Series. MetroArts Program at the William Penn Museum; Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
1985:         Hiroshima ‘85: The International Animation Festival of Japan; Hiroshima, Japan.
1985:         Thomas Edison Black Maria Film and Video Festival National Touring Program.
1986:         The Stuttgart Animation Festival.  New American Animation; Stuttgart, Germany.
1986:         Thomas Edison Black Maria Film and Video Festival National Touring Program.
1986:         Stanford University.  “Pixels and Predicates” curated and presented by Larry Cuba, Ventura Hall, Sandford, California.
1987:         Whitney Biennial.  The Whitney Museum of American Art; New York, New York.
1987:         Santa Fe Film Exposition. Center for Contemporary Arts; Santa Fe, New Mexico.
1987:         Whitney Biennial Film and Video National Touring Program.
1987:         Hirshorn Museum.  New American Cinema; Washington D.C.
1987:         The American Film Institute. Los Angeles, California.
1987:         The Seattle International Film Festival.  Seattle, Washington.
1987:         Pacific Film Archive. Recent American Animation; University Art Museum, Berkeley, California.
1988:         The American Museum of the Moving Image.  American Independent Animated Film: A Retrospective; Astoria, New York.
1988:         Hans Richter 100th Anniversary Tribute.  Curated by Cecile Starr; The Goethe House, New York
1988-89:  Dartmouth College.  Programs: Hans Richter and Beyond, and American Independents: A Change of Perception; Hopkins Center, Hanover, New Hampshire.
1989:         Museum of Art: Oviedo. New Animation; Oviedo, Spain.
1989:         World Animation Festival in Jean Jean.  Naha City, Okinawa, Japan.
1989:         Studio 200.  Film Retrospective; Tokyo, Japan.
1989:         The 3rd Itabashi International Animation Festival.  Itabashi, Japan.
1989:         27th New York Film Festival. Premiere of the film UNDER THE SEA ; Lincoln Center, New York.
1990:         Bombay International Film Festival.  Bombay, India.
1990:         International Animated Film Festival of Stuttgart. Stuttgart, Germany.
1990:         Thomas Edison Black Maria Film and Video Festival National Touring Program.
1990:         Deson/Saunders Gallery. Pittsburgh Today: Painting and Drawing; Curated by Elaine King; Chicago, Illinois.
1990:         Santa Fe Film Exposition. Contemporary Arts Center; Santa Fe, New Mexico.
1990:         New York University. Classics of American Film Program; ASIFA-East and the Tisch School of the Arts.
1990:         Hiroshima ‘90: The International Animation Festival of Japan.  Hiroshima, Japan.
1990:         Deson/Saunders Gallery. Eclipse of Meaning: Paintings and Drawings by Paul Glabicki, Charles B. Luce, and David Russick; Chicago, Illinois.
1990:         San Francisco Cinematheque. Ink, Pixel, Xerox, and Clay: New Animated Films; San Francisco, California.
1990:         24th Annual New York Film Exposition of Short Film and Video.
1991:         Society of Animation Studies.  American Animated Films; George Eastman House, and the Rochester  Institute of Technology.
1992:         Penelic-Bowman-Megan Art Gallery.  Electronic Expressions, Invitational Exhibition of Computer Art; Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania.
1993:         Austria Filmmakers Cooperative.  Abstract +/- Figurative Films; Austria Filmmakers Cooperative and ASIFA Austria; Vienna, Austria.
1993:         Brooklyn College.  New Computer Art; Curated by Rene LeWinter; Brooklyn, New York.
1994:         Zagreb ‘94:11th World Festival of Animated Films.  Festival Anniversary Invitational Program; Zagreb, Croatia.
1994:         Japan Industrial College. Group Animation Show ; curated by Sayoko Kinoshita; Tokyo, Japan.
1995:         Susquehanna Art Museum. Emerging Images: Art by Computer; Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
1996:         Hiroshima ‘96: The International Festival of Animated Film of Japan.  Fine Art Animation Program; Hiroshima, Japan.
1996:         Pittsburgh Biennial. Pittsburgh Center for the Arts; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1997:         Mattress Factory. “Process: Documentation and Fragments from the Mattress Factory Archives,”  1414 Monteray Galleries; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1997:         Mattress Factory. 20th Anniversary Art Exhibition and Auction.  Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Sotheby’s, New York.
1997:         Musashino University of Art. Tokyo, Japan.
1998:         University of Rome. “Metamorfosi: The Films of Paul Glabicki, Pat O’neill, and Jordan Belson;”  Rome, Italy.
1998:         Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema. “Animania: A  Retrospective of American Experimental Cinema;”  Pesaro, Italy.
1998:         Holland Animation Film Festival.  “Animation Survey: USA;”  curated by George Griffin; Utrecht, Holland.
1998:         Kyoto College of Art. “Experimental Animation;” curated by Sayoko Kinoshita; Kyoto, Japan.
1999:         Fundacio Antoni Tapies. “Cine Calculado: Revision de Los Origenes y Pioneros de La Animacion por Ordenador;” curated by Eugeni Bonet; Barcelona, Spain; also traveled to Filmoteca de Zaragoza, Diputacion Provincial de Granada, and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Renia Sofia, Madrid.
1999:         Central Arts. “MA(R)KING;” a survey of artist mark making in 1999; curated by Elaine King; Tucson, Arizona.
1999         Global Multimedia Interface, Leicester  Square, London.  Outdoor/
public LED display of computer animation works RED FENCE (1999) , and DARK                ROOM/SIMPLE ROOF (1998); a project of FACT: the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
2000:         Art in Motion; The International Festival of Time-Based Media; The USC School of Fine Arts; University of Southern California.
2000:         Black Maria Film and Video Festival 2000.  National Touring Program.
2000:         KINETICA 2: The Oskar Fischinger Centennial Celebration.  Presented by the Iota Center, and the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences: the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles: National Gallery of Art,  Washington,  DC; Pacific Film Archive, Berkekey, California.
2000:         Pittsburgh Biennial; Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
2000:         Regina Gouger Miller Gallery. “Fusion: Artists in a Research Setting,”  Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
2001:         Experience Music Project. “The Iota Collection: Experimental Animation 1970-1989;” curator: Larry Cuba, Iota Center, Los Angeles; Seattle, Washington.
2001:         Oberhausen International Film Festival.  Performance of “The Prolonged Present,” by sound artist Paul Miller, featuring his sound remixes, and animation sequences by Paul Glabicki;  Oberhausen,  May 7, 2001, Germany.
2001:         Northwestern University. “Stereo Images,” and screening/installation of RED FENCE; in conjunction with the symposium “Immersive Environments,”  curator: Annette Barbier; Chicago, Illinois.
2001         KINETICA 3: BARDO and the Contemporary Program.  Presented by the Iota Center,  Los Angeles; International Tour:  University of Southern California; Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Cinematheque Ontario, Toronto;  Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Anthology Film Archives, New York; Northwest Film Forum, Seattle; Centre Pompidou, Paris; and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Norwegian Film Festival, Grimstad Kulturhus; Paradiso, Amsterdam; Lux/The Other Cinema, London; Cambridge Film Festival, Cambridge, UK; Duke of York Picturehouse, Brighton, UK.
2001:         Artists Image Resource, Inc., Foreland Street Gallery.  “Photographs by Artists,” an invitational exhibition curated by Robert Raczka; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
2001:         Schneider Museum of Art. “Contemporary Animation,” an exhibition of animation  and animation artwork; curator: Miles Inada; Southern Oregon University, Ashland, Oregon.
2001:         San Francisco Art Institute. “Canyon Cinema: 35th Anniversary,” a screening of works from the Canyon Cinema collection; curator: Dominic Angerame, Executive Director; San Francisco, California.
2001:         SOMARTS Cultural Center. “Saint Rubidium’s Temple,” multi-media installation; San Francisco, California.
2002:         Pittsburgh Dance Alloy.  “New Directions: Dance + Video,” Dance Alloy’s Neighborhood Dance Center; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
2002:         MAK Center for Art and Culture.  “Markings,” a program of experimental animation; Schindler House, West Hollywood, California.
2002:         Jeonju International Film Festival. “American Experimental Animation,” curated by Seung-il Chon and Dong-Jin Seo, in conjunction with Canyon Cinema; Jeonju, South Korea.
2002:         Hiroshima 2000.  “Japan Seen Through the Eyes of Non-Japanese Artists,” International Animation Festival of Japan; Hiroshima, Japan.
2002:         CINEMATH 2002.  20th Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) Mathematics Film Festival; co-curated by Robert Osserman and Michael Singer; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, California.
2002:         Gwangju International Film Festival.  “International Experimental Film and Video,” an invitational exhibition curated by Kim Ll-tae; Gwangju, South Korea.
2002        KINETICA 4: Abstraction, Animation, and Music.  Presented by the Iota Center, Los Angeles; curated by William Moritz; 2002-03 International Tour:  Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; Anthology Film Archives, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge; Cinematheque Ontario, Toronto; Northwest Film Forum, Seattle; Videoex Festival, Zurich, Switzerland; 5thBrisbane International Film Festival, Brisbane Australia; International House, Philadelphia.
2004:         ANIMADRID 2004.  V Festival Internacional de Imagen Anima, Pozuelo de Alarcon, Madrid, Spain.
2004:         Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Strasbourg. “Experimental Animated Cinema,” curated by Olivier Cotte; place Hans Jean Arp, Strasbourg, France.
2004:         AUDIO VISUAL ENCOUNTERS.  “Visions of Japan: Animation, Fiction, and Experimental,” the International Festival of New Media; curated by Julien Dusouchet, Lille, France.
2005:         Anthology Film Archives.  “Paul Sharits and Paul Glabicki,” a program of the “Crossroads” series, curated by Robert Haller; New York, New York.
2005:         DAUMENKINO (The Flip Book Show).  A international exhibition of flip books created by170 artists and filmmakers (1900 – 2005), Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany.
2006:         Boston Cyberarts Festival: Visual Music Marathon.  Curated by Bruce Wands, School of Visual Arts and New York Digital Salon, and Larry Cuba, IotaCenter; Northeastern University, Boston.
2007:         Carnegie Museum of Art. “The Popular Salon of the People,” curated by Vicky Clark; Pittsburgh, PA.
2008:         Musee-Chateau d’Annecy. “L’espirit d’Emile Cohl/The Spirit of Emile Cohl,” an invitational exhibition curated by Maurice Courbet; Musee’Chateau d’Annecy, Annecy, France.
2008:         Kim Foster Gallery. “Gallery Goulash,” a exhibition of gallery artists; Kim Foster Gallery, New York, New York.
2008:         DRAWN TO LIFE: Reanimating the animate.  Curated by Stoffel Debuysere and Maria Palacios Cruz, event organized by Atelier Graphoui, Maison des Cultures Saint-Gilles; Brussels, Belgium.
2009:         Kim Foster Gallery.  “DrawingPainting,” a group exhibition of seven artists; New York, New York.
2009:         Visual Music Marathon.  “Works from the IotaCenter,” curated by Larry Cuba; School of the Visual Arts, New York, New York
2009:         UCLA Design/Media Art Department. “iotaSalon: Strategies of Abstraction,” a group film exhibition presented by the iotaCenter; Broad Art Center, UCLA, Westwood, California.
2009-10:  Canadian Center for Architecture. “Intermission: Films from a Heroic Future,” a group exhibition selected by curators from the Smithsonian, the National Film Board of Canada, NASA, and UBUweb; Montreal, Canada.
2010:         Kim Foster Gallery. “Drawings Continued,” a 3-person exhibition with artists Diane Samuels and William Brovelli; New York, New York.
2010:         Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation. DePaul University School of Cinema & Interactive Media, Chicago, Illinois.
2011:         Islip Art Museum. “Secret Message,” curated by Karen Shaw, work provided courtesy of Kim Foster Gallery; Islip, Long Island, New York.
2012:         Kim Foster Gallery. “Selections: Summer 2012,” a group exhibition of gallery artists; New York, New York.
2013:         National Gallery of Art.  “Cine-Concert: Abstract Animation Since 1970;” curated by Sharon Louden; Washington, DC.
2013:        Kim Foster Gallery. “Particle Physical,” a group show; curator: Antonio Petracca.
2013-14:  ZKM/Museum of Contemporary Art. “SCHRIFTFILME: Script as Image in Movement;” curators: Dr. Bernd Scheffer, Dr. Christine Stenzer, Dr. Soenke Zehle, and Peter Weibel; a collaborate project and exhibition of ZKM/Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany, FACT Foundation for Art and Creative Technology Liverpool, UK, and Goethe Institutes worldwide.
2014:         National Gallery of Art Vilnius.  “TYPEMOTION: Type as Image in Motion;” Vilnius, Lithuania.
2014-15:  FACT/Foundation for Art and Creative Technology. “TYPEMOTION;” Liverpool, UK.
2014:         Kim Foster Gallery.  “Sequential Abstraction;” New York, New York.
2014:         Art Miami: CONTEXT.  Participating Gallery: Kim Foster Gallery (New York), Miami, Florida.
2015:         National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts.  “TYPEMOTION: Type as Image in Motion;” Gallery 103-107, Gallery Street, Taiwan.
2015:         The Great Wall of Oakland. “WRIT LARGE: A Festival of Text;” curators: Timothy Furstnau, Liat Berdugo, and Rose Linke; artists included Paul Glabicki, Marcel Duchamp, Eduardo Kac, Claire Walka, John Fekner, W. Mark Sutherland, bpNichol, Oliver Harrison, Pavel Pavlov, and Augusto DeCampos; Broadway & W. Grand Avenue, Oakland, California, December 5, 2015.
2016:         WRIT LARGE: Highlights of the 2015 Programs of the Great Wall of Oakland; curated by Timothy Furstnau; University of California Santa Cruz.
2017:         Tate Modern.  “Independent Frames: American Experimental Animation in the 1970s – 1980s;” curated by Herb Shellenberger; London, UK, February 17 -19, 2017.
2017:         Irish Film Institute. Selections from “Independent Frames: American Experimental Animation in the 1970s – 1980s;” curated and presented by Herb Shellenberger; Dublin, Ireland, February 23, 2017.
2017:         Birkbeck Cinema. “The Rise of Ruin Cinema: Experimental Filmmaking in the US Rust Belt, 1970s -1980s;” curated and presented by Ben Ogrodnik; 43 Gordon Square, London, UK, December 2, 2017.
2018:         Lightbox Film Center. “Independent Frames: American Experimental Animation in the 1970s -1980s;” curated and presented by Herb Shellenberger, Philadelphia, PA, January 19 – 20, 2018.
2018:         Elaine L. Jacob Gallery.  “HUMAN/NATURE: Selections from the Kim Foster Gallery Collection;” curated by Juana Williams; Wayne State University and the James Pearson Duffy Department of Art and Art History, Detroit, Michigan; January 19 – March 23, 2018.
2018:         QUAD Cinema. “Independent Frames: American Experimental Animation in the 1970s – 1980s;” curated and presented by Herb Shellenberger; 34 W 13thStreet, NY; February 2 – 4, 2018.
2018:         Lehman College Art Gallery. “TICK-TOCK: Time in Contemporary Art;” curated by Bartholomew F. Bland; Bronx, NY, February 20 – May 5.
2018:         IX Mostra de Cinema Periferico.  “Lux Algebra,” session: “Meter and Rhyme;” A Coruna, Spain; May 25 – June 6, 2018.
2018:         EXiS 2018: Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul.  “EX-Now Program: American Experimental Animation;” curated and presented by Motion Picture Academy Preservationist Mark Toscano; Korean Film Archive and Art Sonje Center, Seoul, South Korea, August 12 – 19, 2018.

2018:        Pittsburgh Filmmakers. “Anxious Optics,” a program of experimental animation, curated by Ben Ogrodnik, Melwood Screening Room, April 11.

2019:       Anthology Film Archives: Flaherty Seminar NYC. “PUZZLING,” Program 3: New Language Acquisition, New York, New York, February 12.

2019:       Kim Foster Gallery. “Insalata Mista:” group exhibition of gallery artists, July 9 – August 3.

2020:       Kim Foster Gallery. “Onward/Forward:” group exhibition of gallery artists, January 9 – February 15.                                           

Detail: “EAST WEST WEST EAST” Forum Gallery, Carnegie Museum of Art (1991)

Installation “EAST WEST WEST EAST” (1991) Forum Gallery, Carnegie Museum of Art

Installation “East West West East” (1991) Forum Gallery, Carnegie Museum of Art

“Memory Spaces” Series: Computer generated image for 3D Stereo Projection (1994-96)

“Accounting For” Kim Foster Gallery (2009)

“Accounting For” Kim Foster Gallery (2009)

Kim Foster Gallery exhibition: 2009

Exhibition “The Light” Kim Foster Gallery (2016)

Kim Foster Gallery: “The Light” exhibition (2016)

“Object Conversation” (1985) 1987 Whitney Biennial

“For Emile Cohl” Pencil, Ink, Prismacolor on paper (2008) Musee Chateau Annecy, France

Catalogue: “TYPEMOTION”(2013)

Poster: TYPEMOTION (2013)

Catalogue: “TYPEMOTION” (2015)

Exhibition: “HUMAN NATURE” (2018)

Exhibition: “TICK TOCK” (2018)

Poster: “Lux Algebra” (2018)

Gallery Guide (2014)

Mattress Factory installation view: “This Is Just That” (1990)

Mattress Factory installation view “This Is Just That” (1990)

“From Mountain to Peak #3” Carnegie Museum of Art installation (1991)
Flaherty Seminar NYC: Program 3: "New Language Acquisition" (2019)

Flaherty Seminar NYC: Program 3: “New Language Acquisition” (2019)

Kim Foster Gallery: solo exhibition “Land and Scene” (2019)

Selected installation views “Land and Scene:”